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Pines Modern is a brand-new, non-profit 501(c)(3) endeavor dedicated to the rediscovery of all that the Pines has created, particularly its mid-century architectural and cultural heritage. We ask for your support in the form of tax deductible contributions to help us to continue discovering, documenting, and sharing the best that Fire Island Pines has to offer. There is much more to document! Our significant expenses include professional photography, drum-scanning of vintage images, creation and maintenance of the web site, required non-profit insurance, preservation consultations with homeowners, and the staffing of Pines Modern functions. Our officers are not paid for their efforts.
Donors at the $50 annual level and above will receive priority notification for house tours and other Pines Modern events. Each donor who contributes $150 and above will receive a free ticket to the next Pines Modern house tour. Please contact us if you would like to place an advertisement on our site.
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2019 Contributors
Adam Wade
Pines Modern is a brand-new, non-profit 501(c)(3) endeavor dedicated to the rediscovery of all that the Pines has created, particularly its mid-century architectural and cultural heritage. We ask for your support in the form of tax deductible contributions to help us to continue discovering, documenting, and sharing the best that Fire Island Pines has to offer. There is much more to document! Our significant expenses include professional photography, drum-scanning of vintage images, creation and maintenance of the web site, required non-profit insurance, preservation consultations with homeowners, and the staffing of Pines Modern functions. Our officers are not paid for their efforts.
Donors at the $50 annual level and above will receive priority notification for house tours and other Pines Modern events. Each donor who contributes $150 and above will receive a free ticket to the next Pines Modern house tour. Please contact us if you would like to place an advertisement on our site.
For support regarding donations, send your message here.
2019 Contributors
Adam Wade
471 FIRE ISLAND BLVD
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Architect: Unknown. Interior Design: BRAY-SCHAIBLE, c. 1980
Robert Bray and Michael Schaible are a pair of interior designers associated with the High Tech design movement of the late Seventies and early Eighties, a minimalist sensibility that favored materials like chrome, black leather, and Lucite. This sensibility translated surprisingly well to their shared home at 471 Fire Island Boulevard—their only known project on Fire Island--where they rejected much of the usual bromides regarding beach house décor. “They’re supposed to be white,” said Bray, “or at least pale and beachy, with bare floors. Well ,when we bought the beach house, our first decision was what to do about the walls…We stained [them] black. That sounds perverse, but when you come indoors after being in the hot sun, the darkness is extremely soothing—like the shade of a tree. Then we covered the floors with charcoal-black industrial carpeting, and our friends thought that we were crazy…”
Architectural Digest featured the home as its Cover story in May 1993.
Photos: Durston Saylor.
